Rail-joint.



UNITED; STATES ATENT Prion.

LAWRENCE C. CYPHERS, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 681,043, dated August 1901. Application neanpnl 24., 1901. sel-n1 No. 57,283. (No model.)

To all whom/traag concerwv Beit known thatLLAwRENCE C. OYPHERS,

a citizen of the United States of America,

residing at Pittsburgin the county of Allegheny andStateof Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new auduseful Improvements j in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification, referenceA being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention `relates to certain new and` useful improvements in rail-joints, and more particularly to that class wherein the usual nuts and bolts are entirely dispensed with.`

` The invention has for one object the provision of novel means whereby two sections of rails may be effectually joined together l and a device that can be easily removed when the occasionA requires.

Brieiiy described,v the invention consists of a base-plate of sufficient length to rest upon and between two cross-ties. This base-plate is centrally groved to receive the base of the rail and is also provided with a pair ofin-` tegral fish-plates, between which the sections of the rails are joined together.

The invention further consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, and spe cifically pointed out in the claim.

In describingthe invention in detail referf ence is had` to the accompanying drawings, forminglfa part of this speciiication, `and whereinlike numerals of reference indicate `like parts throughout both views, in which- Figure 1 is` a perspective View of my improved rail-joint applied to the rails.` Fig. 2

is an enlarged vertical sectional view thereof, showingthe same partly in end elevation.

In the` drawings the reference-numeral j l indicates the cross-ties, and 2 indicates the `base-plate, having formed therein a central groove 3, adapted to receive the base of the rail 4,saidirail being of the ordinary and wellknown form.

The reference-numeral 5 indicates a pair of integral fish-plates formed on the upper face of the base-plate and extending over the central recess 3 to a point where the one face of the fish-plate engages the web, the lower face of the head, and the upper face of the base of the rail. This base-plate has formed therein a number of openings 6, adjacent to thecentrally-recessed portion, to receive spikes 7, serving to fasten the plate to the rail, which is also fastened by a number of spikes 8,`secured in the cross-ties to the sides of the base-plate 2. The manner of fastening the two sections together is extremely simple, being performed by allowing the ends of the rail to be placed in the recesses 3 and engage the inner sides of the fish-plates by slipping the ends of the rails into the open; ings lengthwise. When the rail is placed in proper position,the spikes 7 are then attached to the cross-ties, and the spikes S being previously secured to the cross-ties to retain the plate 2. j

The many advantages of myimproved rail= joint will be readily apparent from the foref going description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

`Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a rail-joint, a substantially iiat baseplate, of sufficient length to extend over two cross-ties, fish-plates made integral with said base-plate, the base-plate and fish-plates being recessed to receive the baseand `web of the rails, the said base-plate having apertures formed therein to receive spikes which are adapted to engage the base ofthe rail, spikes secured to the ends of the base-plate, the said iish-plates being adapted to en gage the under face of the tread of the rail, substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LAVRENOE C. CYPHERS.

Witnesses:

JOHN NOLAND, E. E. POTTER. 

